tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.comments2018-01-12T12:14:02.189-06:00The Cynical CookCynical Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comBlogger607125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-42018278489708394482017-08-15T10:44:28.399-05:002017-08-15T10:44:28.399-05:00My visits to Stawberry Cafe are very similar to th...My visits to Stawberry Cafe are very similar to the cynical cook.<br />I must say one occasion I ordered the special which was a fish dish that for extra money you could have it topped with&quot;Jumbo shrimp&quot; (which was 1.00 plus per shrimp), crab or crawfish. I received my order of fish with 2 &quot;jumbo&quot; shrimp on top and it was laughable. They were so small and would NEVER met the classification as jumbo. I said something to my waitress and she say&quot;I&#39;m sorry&quot;. Chief nor manager DIDNOT come to table as a matter of fact all that I got was the waitresss apology and it didn&#39;t come across as genuine . They don&#39;t know how to treat customers. It&#39;s sad.Tara Herringnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-21002814539392995352016-05-15T22:16:23.818-05:002016-05-15T22:16:23.818-05:00You got me, I&#39;m such a yankee I was born weari...You got me, I&#39;m such a yankee I was born wearing pinstripes.Cynical Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-88838185694139603222016-05-15T22:00:52.728-05:002016-05-15T22:00:52.728-05:00Tom&#39;s Coneys, Downtown was my favorite. Sneak...Tom&#39;s Coneys, Downtown was my favorite. Sneaky Pete&#39;s has always been great...who wrote this article without even trying the kraut, sauce, mustard and onion variety that is the core of the Birmingham Hotdog Business? A yankee no doubt. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-56956471343121133432016-02-28T23:00:15.462-06:002016-02-28T23:00:15.462-06:00Nice post !!Nice post !!Emran Ahammadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01927720665809548898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-21657892446692201562016-02-28T22:18:20.103-06:002016-02-28T22:18:20.103-06:00Kelley,
Hope you enjoy it.Kelley,<br /><br />Hope you enjoy it.Cynical Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-58544573794000100652016-02-28T22:05:05.036-06:002016-02-28T22:05:05.036-06:00I think lunch tomorrow at C.S.&#39;s with Pat and ...I think lunch tomorrow at C.S.&#39;s with Pat and Inez sounds perfect! Love, Kelley Kelleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-73208775479149893652016-02-27T09:55:16.314-06:002016-02-27T09:55:16.314-06:00Nicely done, anon, nicely done.Nicely done, anon, nicely done.Cynical Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-83739010597136871202016-02-27T09:26:55.684-06:002016-02-27T09:26:55.684-06:00They should be you white flight piece of shitThey should be you white flight piece of shitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-26787560060583586992016-02-26T20:28:52.312-06:002016-02-26T20:28:52.312-06:00Ahhh..1985... Inez Burgers, Fosters and Will and t...Ahhh..1985... Inez Burgers, Fosters and Will and the Bushman...those were the days...John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10213497403098228382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-67436764585576396662016-02-26T18:08:14.891-06:002016-02-26T18:08:14.891-06:00Glad to see that nearly six years later people sti...Glad to see that nearly six years later people still get miffed at this.Cynical Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-18803125509025737412016-02-26T17:37:21.423-06:002016-02-26T17:37:21.423-06:00CS&#39;s is great. Never had a bad meal there. Gre...CS&#39;s is great. Never had a bad meal there. Great ambience, too. I sense a smear job by this hack.....BRWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-87369746804384489112015-02-08T20:40:18.716-06:002015-02-08T20:40:18.716-06:00Just discovered your blog today, extremely impress...Just discovered your blog today, extremely impressed! Please do not quit, rare for women to both know their stuff and actually go to primo locales. Kudos!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-44509726324757186182015-01-28T03:48:51.023-06:002015-01-28T03:48:51.023-06:00Next time try the fried green tomatoes with the 18...Next time try the fried green tomatoes with the 1870&#39;s sauce. I always get the vegetable plate there at lunch and always have to have the creole cabbage. At dinner you have to try the potatoes au gratin. I&#39;m suddenly craving it. I usually eat fish for dinner there but have never tried the catfish. I will be sure to change that at my next dinner at Weidmanns.Lauren Welchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890309980028562243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-36660644283374782032014-03-09T19:03:32.873-05:002014-03-09T19:03:32.873-05:00Yay! Glad to see you back.Yay! Glad to see you back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-37259199248160041122014-03-06T14:44:57.596-06:002014-03-06T14:44:57.596-06:00This is Taiwanese cuisine rather than Chinese.It h...This is Taiwanese cuisine rather than Chinese.It has some excellent dishes.The soupy dumplings are great.So are the pea greens.Try some of the regular menu dishes instead of the standard lunch menu fare...loesjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12864526623164023095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-53218703756576868552014-02-24T10:47:36.824-06:002014-02-24T10:47:36.824-06:00Good to hear from you again. Your mention of Weidm...Good to hear from you again. Your mention of Weidmann&#39;s is the first time I&#39;ve heard of the place. Sounds like a worthy stop in Meridian.Lisa Blairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06288352630209939371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-53874710202063370612014-02-10T16:05:46.963-06:002014-02-10T16:05:46.963-06:00Sure do miss your posts and pics. Sure do miss your posts and pics. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-75134672904345269532013-11-17T11:32:52.282-06:002013-11-17T11:32:52.282-06:00&quot;For those with a predilection for the spicy,...&quot;For those with a predilection for the spicy, neigh mouth searing, Ding How has just the thing for you.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Neigh&quot; is a horsey sound; the word you were looking for is &quot;nay.&quot; Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-77867076040501022002013-11-14T20:15:34.762-06:002013-11-14T20:15:34.762-06:00I&#39;m guessing you lost your job or are on a die...I&#39;m guessing you lost your job or are on a diet? Either way, hope life is treating you well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-76371758709438390742013-10-15T08:29:33.727-05:002013-10-15T08:29:33.727-05:00&gt;Anon
- Thanks for the concern. I am, thankful...&gt;Anon<br /><br />- Thanks for the concern. I am, thankfully, still alive but blogging has taken a backseat to the rest of life. I do have a backlog of posts to write so hopefully there will be something new in the very near future.Cynical Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096742413445591296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-36170351857550448492013-10-07T16:31:22.965-05:002013-10-07T16:31:22.965-05:00You alive? Worried about the lack of updates.You alive? Worried about the lack of updates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-23881733342169423802013-09-26T01:18:35.534-05:002013-09-26T01:18:35.534-05:00This is great!This is great!Ilenehttp://bestcoffeemakers2013.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-8713468342686797882013-09-25T21:55:19.217-05:002013-09-25T21:55:19.217-05:00I can tell you for a fact, seeing as I worked ther...I can tell you for a fact, seeing as I worked there for almost 2 years(at the original Montgomery location). You are paying for nostalgia. Over 20 years ago and prior the ribs were smoked and they were awesome, and the sauce was always freshly made. It was truly worth traveling a distance to eat. That is what drove me to want to cook there. Boy was I surprised when I started working there. The ribs I remembered from my childhood no longer existed. The sauce now mass produced in a factory came in 5 gallon buckets that get dumped and rewarmed in a steam kettle in the back corner of the kitchen. The ribs though are far more disappointing. They come in frozen, stored in a giant walk in freezer in the basement. They are not thawed prior to being put through a standard conveyor oven(the kind you see at a pizza restaurant)and then picked up with tong and dipped into a pan of hot barbeque sauce that came from the kettle mentioned earlier. Their &quot;Amazing&quot; pork chops are cooked the same way(pork chops go through the pizza oven twice). There is almost nothing cooked fresh their even the calamari and crab cakes come in frozen. In my opinion if you saw the price of the crab cakes or calamari you would(hopefully like me) expect the food to be freshly made. On top of that that don&#39;t even hire proper cooks. Most of the kitchen staff make barely minimum wage and either carpool or take public transportation from what most of America would instantly classify as the &quot;Ghetto&quot; or &quot;Hood&quot;. When this is the common method for staffing your restaurant.... You get what you pay for! These facts led me to leave there, and I have never eaten their food since. That was almost 15 years ago. I still know and associate with many people who still work there, and nothing has changed since I left. Please for your own good don&#39;t waste your time or money eating there. You can get better ribs at O&#39;Charlies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-16193800918523746202013-09-14T19:48:46.339-05:002013-09-14T19:48:46.339-05:00Second that! &quot;Real&quot; cha gio are not tha...Second that! &quot;Real&quot; cha gio are not that great. I had them in Saigon, Hanoi, as well as hawlong bay and they just can&#39;t compare to the ones here! I personally love this place. The Bo luc lac is the best in the city as well as the crispy egg noodles with seafood. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041844699195170850.post-495569837975613602013-08-30T22:57:43.721-05:002013-08-30T22:57:43.721-05:00Having lived in the suburbs of Birmingham for 14 y...Having lived in the suburbs of Birmingham for 14 years and the city itself for 9 I&#39;m a bit befuddled that I didn&#39;t know of the &quot;dog&quot; culture until about 2 years ago. Now it&#39;s become something of an obsession. I was lucky enough to have sampled Pete&#39;s Famous before it closed. I must say in its wake Gus&#39;s is as close as comes. I have not tried any of the other Greek hot dog joints just yet. Mostly because I find these two to have honed the craft at its best. Something now I&#39;m trying to perfect at home. I have only gotten close. The &quot;special sauce&quot; differs from place to place but seems to have the same signature. It is however the hardest part of the equation to duplicate. I find that the chili sauce is perhaps easier to pull in a &quot;close&quot;. It must be noted that the &quot;special&quot; is a one two punch combo. There is a lightly seasoned ground chuck topping additionally topped with a sauce. It&#39;s often confused as being an all together mix like the chili but this is wrong. However the combination does make it difficult to figure out the flavors of each part separately. Perhaps I should order dogs with only those select topping to better taste them alone. It&#39;s just that they work so well combined. I&#39;ll get there. Now the chili. I don&#39;t think this review does it justice. It&#39;s a beast of its own. It is dense, mostly meat. Differing greatly from any other hot dog chili I&#39;ve ever had. All others either have beans or are much more sauce and tomato based. This chili is a dark rich meat paste. It doesn&#39;t move. It looks like a sloppy dog but fear not, it stays in place. I&#39;ve never spilled a drop. It works so well with the awkward shape and nature of a hot dog. I can&#39;t see ever eating it alone with a spoon because it was never intended for that. It isn&#39;t simply chili added to something. It is chili made for something. I must say, it serves it&#39;s purpose well. This isn&#39;t the gloopy, runny, chili cheese dog with Hormel and cheese sauce. It is equally as simple but constructed properly for the subject at hand. I will continue to try to perfect this at home having learned it&#39;s place in Birmingham culture. As much as I want to capture the true flavor of the originals; being a novice chef, I find myself wanting to play with the overall recipe and put my own signature spin on it. Perhaps that&#39;s what makes it more fun and alluring. It&#39;s a simple yet confounding recipe with some many possibilities. Who knew hot dogs could become such a hobby. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com